Chapter 35: The Past
When Zhang Xiang woke up, he was on a stone bed covered with hay.
The upper body is naked, and a strip of white cloth is wrapped around the shoulders and lower abdomen.
There was still a dull pain behind him under his left shoulder.
When he got up, he touched the wound, and the pain made his forehead break out in cold sweat.
Outside the dilapidated earthen window, the sun shone in, and after he opened his eyes and adjusted to the light, he put on the long robe that was placed next to the bed and walked out of the broken thatched hut.
Outside the house, there is a small courtyard surrounded by a fence, and the yard is overgrown with weeds.
In front of the fence, the figure of a woman in black was facing away from him.
Although Zhang Xiang was injured by the dart last night, he also knew that there were two knights, a man and a woman, who saved him.
When he fainted, he seemed to see a somewhat familiar old man's face, but he fainted without seeing it too clearly.
"Girl..."Zhang Xiang called out to the woman, and was about to thank him for saving his life.
Then the woman turned.
"Miss Qin, is that you?" Zhang Xiang was taken aback.
Unexpectedly, the woman in black in front of him was the Ning Xiangju Oiran Qin Elegy, who had a relationship with him.
He reminisced about the previous night.
At that time, he felt that the veiled woman's voice was a little familiar, but he was already injured at that time, and he only thought about running for his life, so he didn't think too much about it.
At this time, Qin Elegy had already taken off his veil, looked at Zhang Xiang with a smile, and walked over: "Xiao Engong, you are awake, your injuries have not healed, how can you come down and walk around." ”
"Little Engong?" Zhang Xiang was a little confused: "Shouldn't it be me who thanked Miss Qin for saving her life?" ”
Qin Elegy said softly: "Little Engong, let's go back to the house first, there are many things to be said to you slowly by Elegy." ”
Then the two of them went back to the house and sat down.
Qin Elegy didn't shy away from the difference between men and women at the moment, she took off the strip of cloth behind Zhang Xiang and looked at the injury, and said: "Fortunately, the poison is gone, this wound should be fine after a few days of rest, this Guan Sheng's plum blossom dart is poisonous, last night the iron senior gave you the poison and healed the wound overnight, so that the toxin did not spread, if it is later, I am afraid that your life will not be guaranteed." ”
"Iron Senpai?" Zhang Xiang had many questions in his heart at the moment.
Qin Elegy replied: "It's the senior who rescued you and me last night, I didn't know him at first, but it was only after he brought us here that I realized his identity." ”
Qin Wangge also suffered some slight internal injuries last night, and he healed his injuries overnight, and now he is fine.
Zhang Xiang had no impression of the old man who only glanced at him before he fell into a coma last night, and hurriedly asked, "What about this iron senior?" ”
Qin Elegy continued: "Senior Tie has already gone out to pick herbs and come back to boil medicine for you, if you want to thank him, it's not too late to thank him when he comes back." ”
Zhang Xiang asked again: "By the way, Miss Qin, why do you call me Xiao Engong?" ”
"This is what Elegy will say to Xiao Engong next, and it is also the purpose of me and my senior brother coming to Pingzhou, senior brother is the man who saved you last night, his name is Yuan Shen."
Then Qin Elegy told Zhang Xiang to listen: "Originally, the master instructed that before those people noticed you, let me and my senior brother not disturb your life for the time being, just protect your safety in Pingzhou secretly, after all, you have no power and no power now, if you know something, you are afraid of doing something impulsive." But now that those people have sent someone to assassinate you, then these words can be told to you. ”
"Xiao Engong, I was originally an ordinary woman of a merchant in Liangzhou City, but on the eighth day of May last year, the Northern Liao Iron Cavalry captured Liangzhou City, the Northern Liao people burned and looted in the city, the fire in the city burned for ten days, hundreds of thousands of Liangzhou people were slaughtered by the Northern Liao people, and my Qin family was not spared, and then it was General Zhang, that is, your father broke into the city with three thousand Northern Foot troops, and I and some people were saved."
Qin Elegy recalled that this experience in the past was something she had always been reluctant to mention and recall.
But now, when I tell Zhang Xiang, I feel a lot more flat, and it should be a year long, and I have looked down on too much coldness in the world, and my heart is much tougher.
"But there are 30,000 Northern Liao troops in the city, and there are 70,000 sieges outside the city, General Zhang took 3,000 people to rescue these surviving people from the city, it was really too difficult, at that time he let 2,000 soldiers guard the people, and after the 1,000 soldiers broke off, I only saw the Northern Liao army surging around, and those who guarded our Beilu army fell in a pool of blood one by one, and when they finally broke through the city, only 200 left of the 3,000 Beilu army, and the more than 200 people saved at the beginning only brought out 38 young men and women with flexible movements, Those old and young women and children all died under the butcher's knife of the Northern Liao people. ”
"After leaving the city, Yelu Jilu, the general of the Northern Liao army, personally chased after him with 20,000 iron cavalry, and General Zhang took us to the west of Liangzhou for twenty miles, and met Xiao Ming who came from Dingzhou to support. Xiao Ming is General Zhang's personal guard, General Zhang was originally in Dingzhou, and after hearing about the fall of Liangzhou, he rushed to Liangzhou with 3,000 fast troops to rescue people, and Xiao Ming took 20,000 troops from the northern foot of Dingzhou to support. ”
"After encountering Xiao Ming, General Zhang asked Xiao Ming to flee to the west with 3,000 people to escort us, and he himself took the remaining 10,000 people south to the direction of Xuanzhou Mansion, leading away Yelu Jilu's pursuers."
"Xiao Ming took us, originally wanted to go to Dingzhou, but on the way we encountered a team of 20,000 soldiers and horses, these soldiers and horses are not the Beilu Army, but the Zhending Army of the Southwest Yuandu Mansion, the Zhending Army is to resist Xijin, and it is led by General Sun Qingsun."
At first, we thought that the 20,000 Zhending army was coming to the rescue, but we didn't expect that after meeting, Pei Qing shouted, Xiao Ming rebelled, and took the Beilu army in Dingzhou to take refuge in Northern Liao, so that his soldiers could be killed. Xiao Ming explained to him, he didn't listen at all, and surrounded us, so Xiao Ming could only break through, and after breaking through, there were only 1,000 people left in the 3,000 Beilu army, Xiao Ming was still angry for this, and beheaded Pei Qing's head. ”
"After killing Pei Qing, the charge of rebellion is even more confirmed, and Dingzhou naturally can't go back, Xiao Ming thought of a conspiracy, and then he could only take more than a thousand of us to flee in the direction of Mobei, and finally fled to the Snow God Mountain in Mobei."
"Snow God Mountain is a big snow mountain in Mobei, located between South Chu, Xijin and North Liao, with snow all year round, the mountain is steep, and we have temporarily settled on it."
"We have all cut off contact with the outside world, so Xiao Ming can only send people out every day to find out the news, until a month later, news came from the capital, General Zhang because of the delay of the military plane, resulting in the fall of Liangzhou, the Zhang family was beheaded, and because you have a marriage contract with Princess Gaoping, Your Majesty will pardon you for your capital crimes, so that you can marry the princess a year later and live in Pingzhou forever."
Speaking of this, Qin Elegy breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw Zhang Xiang's calm face, because Zhang Xiang did not have the anger she imagined.
She continued: "When the news came, Xiao Ming, that is, my master, thought of everything, saying that this was a conspiracy, and someone in the court wanted to frame your father. Master said, your father did not delay any military aircraft, originally your father has been guarding Liangzhou, but at that time, there was a person named Cui Gonggong in the imperial court took a holy decree to Liangzhou, saying that there was a secret report, Northern Liao gathered 100,000 troops to capture Dingzhou, Your Majesty asked your father to go to Dingzhou to set up defenses, because it was a holy decree, your father did not have any doubts, so he had to go to Dingzhou, but he didn't expect that as soon as he arrived in Dingzhou, the news that Liangzhou had been captured, he had to lead 3,000 fast troops to come to the rescue first, this is what I told you before, When your father came, Liangzhou had already been slaughtered. ”
"False proclamation?" Zhang Xiang asked suddenly.
Qin Elegy nodded: "Later, the master sent someone to the capital to check, but there was no such person as Gonggong Cui in the palace, and the master was convinced, this was someone who falsely passed on the holy decree and transferred your father out of Liangzhou, which led to the fall of Liangzhou." ”
After listening to all this that Qin Elegy said, Zhang Xiang was basically able to combine everything...